Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations

by Edited by Gavriel Salomon

• ISBN13: 9780521574235
• ISBN10: 0521574234
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Traditionally, human cognition has been seen and studied as existing solely 'inside' a person's head, with relative disregard for the social, physical, and artifactual surroundings in which cognition takes place. This book is a bold attempt to re-examine the nature of cognitions and to propose that a clearer understanding of human cognition would be achieved if it were conceptualized and studied as distributed among individuals, that knowledge is socially constructed through collaborative efforts toward shared objectives within cultural surroundings and that information is processed between individuals and the tools and artifacts provided by culture. The authors use illustrations from daily life and educational activities and suggest implications for education.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Series foreword	ix
Editor's introduction	xi
A cultural-historical approach to distributed cognition	1	(46)
Michael Cole
Yrjo Engestrom
Practices of distributed intelligence and designs for education	47	(41)
Roy D. Pea
Person-plus: a distributed view of thinking and learning	88	(23)
D. N. Perkins
No distribution without individuals' cognition: a dynamic interactional view	111	(28)
Gavriel Salomon
Living knowledge: the social distribution of cultural resources for thinking	139	(25)
Luis C. Moll
Javier Tapia
Kathryn F. Whitmore
Finding cognition in the classroom: an expanded view of human intelligence	164	(24)
Thomas Hatch
Howard Gardner
Distributed expertise in the classroom	188	(41)
Ann L. Brown
Doris Ash
Martha Rutherford
Kathryn Nakagawa
Ann Gordon
Joseph C. Campione
On the distribution of cognition: some reflections	229	(34)
Raymond S. Nickerson
Index	263